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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Achan hiArusa" data-source="post: 1661843" data-attributes="member: 2597">Okay, I was playing a game where we were playing with the gestalt rules.  Everyone had to pick a Modern class and a D&D class to gestalt.  But that wasn't the problem.The problem came in when I my 3/3 barbarian/tough hero dworg (race toned down from Midnight) who knew "modern" dwarvish could not even pick out a few concepts from "ancient" dwarvish.  The argument used by the DM and our ancient languages guy (who has studied Greek and Hebrew but the only modern language he knows is English) was that for me to do so would step on the tail of the Smart Hero's Linguist Talent.  Of course our ancient languages guy had some argument about how lingustic drift would prevent me from understanding.  But I myself know some Spanish and I can pick out a few halting concepts from other Romance languages, also I can also pick out a few things from German and Old and Middle English.  I wouldn't have argued if the dwarves spoke Draconic, but they spoke a language related to one I spoke and I still believe that I should have gotten an Int check to understand at least a few fricking nouns or verbs somewhere in there.I just feel that if the Linguist talent didn't exist I would have gotten something from what they were saying.  Its a case of an existing rule getting in the way of common sense.  Heck, Champions and Shadowrun have rules about using a different language to determine something about a related language.</blockquote>

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